Anxiety Coach Parent Education Course

Anxiety Coach Parent Education Course

Help to reduce anxiety and build resilience in children aged 4-12.

Parents will learn: By having a greater understanding of the problem of increasing levels of anxiety in children parents will identify anxiety and counter it’s progress.

• An overview of how a well-honed theory of parenting (what you need to repeatedly do) can assist parents to manage children’s worries.
• Coverage of how some misguided policies are making parents and children more anxious.
• The brain, including how the prefrontal middle cortex and the amygdala operate, and where fear and anxiety originates.
• Commonly misused phrases and cognitive distortions used by children and their peers.
• A helicopter view of what risks we can allow and which require us to keep children safe.
• ‘Traps and trip wires’: what to do when a child’s amygdala starts to play-up.
• Memorable strengthening sayings, questioning strategies and mindfulness exercises.

The course facilitator is Jenny Spring.

The course will take place at Hilltops Community Hub between 10am and 12.30pm on Tuesday the 5th, 12th and 19th of August. To register, call or email Jenny on 0429 886 697 or at jenny.s@youngnc.org.au or the Hilltops Hub on 6382 6328.

Harden Murrumburrah Men’s Shed Presentation

The Harden Murrumburrah Men’s Shed is hosting a presentation on prostate cancer. Local man Jim Ryan will give a presentation title ‘My treatment regime for prostate cancer’. Local men are encouraged to attend and ‘learn from someone who’s been there’. The presentation will take place on Saturday the 26th of July at 12.30pm at the Men’s Shed in East Street, Harden at the old railway building. Check out what the Men’s Shed is all about while you are there.

Boorowa Community Landcare Group hosting screening of Just A Farmer

BCLG is hosting a free screening of the Australian film Just A Farmer next Wednesday, the 16th of July at the Boorowa Ex-Services Club. The film follows the resilience, triumphs and struggles of rural life. A light meal will be provided before the screening and a Q and A panel with star and scriptwriter Leila McDougall. The light meal begins at 5.30pm, the screening at 6.30pm and the Q and A panel at 8.45pm. Register at events.humanitix.com/just-a-farmerwb6x6mwe

Young Mobile Blood Donor Centre

Thursday 10 July 1.00 pm – 7 pm
Friday 11 July 7.30 am – 2 pm
Boorowa Street, adjacent Woolworths car park, Young

Hilltops Youth Action Group Youth Passport Program Nutrition Workshop with Live Better

A fun and informative Nutrition Workshop where you’ll learn all about eating healthy and feeling great! Are you aged 12–24 and interested in eating better, feeling better, and having fun while doing it? Come along to the free Youth Nutrition Workshop, a hands-on, interactive session focused on smart snacking, healthy habits, and making the right food choices when hunger strikes. You’ll learn how to prepare tasty, balanced meals on a budget, explore the powerful link between what you eat and how you feel (mentally and physically), and get creative making your own colourful, nutritious snacks and smoothies.

Whether you’re new to healthy eating or just want some fresh ideas, this is your chance to build skills, confidence, and tasty new habits — all in a fun, relaxed environment with other young people! 11.30am - 2.30pm at the Young Town Hall - LEOC Room on Friday the 18th of July.

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/nutrition-workshop-with-live-better-tickets-1296406178779

Boorowa Run Club Mum’s and Bubs Run/WalkWednesdays at 10am. Meet at the playground carpark. Bring your prams, scooters, bikes or carriers. Walk or run around the 3km or 5km loop or turn around wherever suits you. Plenty of seats along the way to stop for a feed.

Coffee afterwards at Hollys at 11am with the CWA Mother’s Group.

Murringo Barracks Art Gallery Exhibition: Everyday PhotographersPhotography exhibition featuring works by Bee Coll, Julie Downs and Cindy McCallum. Open Saturdays and Sundays 10am-4pm. Free admission. Exhibition runs from Saturday the 21st of June until Saturday the 30th of August.

Harden’s CWA Co-Op Shop

Harden’s CWA Co-Op Shop will be open again this coming Friday from 9am through to 1pm. Along with the usual tasty array of treats on offer, such as cakes, biscuits and slices, a new initiative they are offering is a “Winter Warmer” with a different menu item on offer each week. This Friday it will be a delicious Pea and Ham Soup so get in quick before it’s gone! While you’re at the CWA rooms in Neill Street, Harden why not enjoy a free Devonshire Tea and have a look at the craft items on offer. You’ll be sure of a warm welcome!

Kanzas Rose Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser

Starting at Bribbaree Showground, there will be a 200km ride through the countryside. Returning to the Showground, there will be live entertainment, bar facilities, food, raffles, auctions, the draw for the major prize and much more. $20 per vehicle. Bus available for $30 per person. Saturday the 13th of September starting at 10am.

• Topics:

• Community Groups
• Landcare